Japanese Babies Battle In Crying Sumo Competition
Mainichi has reported on an interesting festival held on May 27th in Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture:
More than 200 babies took part in a “crying sumo” competition held at Chokoji Temple here in late May.
The event first began in 1993 to pray for the health of babies. Men wearing mawashi sumo belts gently shook the babies in a bid to see how powerfully they could cry. A Japanese proverb says that babies who often cry will grow up to be healthy.
It doesn’t look like many photos of the 2007 festival have been placed online yet, but the festival’s homepage did have this wonderful set of pictures from last year’s competition:
Can’t get enough photos of sumo wrestlers making babies cry? Check out our other report on a similar festival held in Tokyo.
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